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Tracking Firm Use of AI in Real Time : A Snapshot from the Business Trends and Outlook Survey
Bonney, Kathryn; Breaux, Cory; Buffington, Cathy; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Timely and accurate measurement of AI use by firms is both challenging and crucial for understanding the impacts of AI on the U.S. economy. We provide new, real-time estimates of current and expected future use of AI for business purposes based on the Business Trends and Outlook Survey for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014528359
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Innovation : The Bright Side of Common Ownership?
Antón, Miguel; Ederer, Florian; Giné, Mireia; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
impediment to corporate innovation. By contrast, without technological spillovers, innovation has the effect of stealing market … share from rivals; in that case, more common ownership reduces innovation. Empirically, the association between common … ownership and innovation inputs and outputs decreases with product market proximity and increases with technology proximity. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512046
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Research and/or Development? Financial Frictions and Innovation Investment
Mezzanotti, Filippo; Simcoe, Timothy S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
disaggregates "R" from "D" to study how US firms adjust their innovation investments in response to an external increase in funding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337755
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Firm-Level Upgrading in Developing Countries
Verhoogen, Eric - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
various dimensions of upgrading --- learning, quality upgrading, technology adoption, and product innovation. The second part …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696370
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ICT, R&D and Organizational Innovation : Exploring Complementarities in Investment and Production
Mohnen, Pierre - 2018
This paper examines whether there are complementarities between investments in ICT, R&D and organizational innovation … return of 9.7%, followed by 6% to 7% on organizational innovation and a modest 1.4% to 1.8% on R&D in services and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480697
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Organizations and Trade
Antràs, Pol - 2008
We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In reviewing the literature, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464387
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Inertia and Incentives : Bridging Organizational Economics and Organizational Theory
Henderson, Rebecca - 2005
Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm's employees, stressing that the political economy of a firm plays a major role in shaping organizational life and firm behavior. Yet the detailed study of incentive systems has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466822
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The Demand for Coordination
Dessein, Wouter - 2003
This paper endogenizes coordination problems in organizations by allowing for both ex ante coordination of activities, using rules and task guidelines, and ex post coordination, using communication and broad job assignments. It shows that: (i) Task specialization and the division of labor is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468638
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Organizational Economics and Physician Practices
Rebitzer, James B. - 2011
Economists seeking to improve the efficiency of health care delivery frequently emphasize two issues: the fragmented structure of physician practices and poorly designed physician incentives. This paper analyzes these issues from the perspective of organizational economics. We begin with a brief...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461123
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Managers and the Management of Organizations
Roberts, John; Shaw, Kathryn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We critically review the emerging literature in Organizational and Personnel Economics concerning the role of managers and management practices. Our focus is on the middle managers who populate the hierarchies between top executives and front-line employees. We are especially concerned with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477222